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skbruewerParticipating Frequently
asked in Americas - Texas & Louisiana

PO Suggestions by Plant

We currently have 2 plants for our site. 1 is for Field Services and 1 is for Manufacturing. We have the same part in both plants, but added FS to the front of the one for Field Services, making it a separate part number. That was done to, in their minds, keep demand separate.Am I wrong in thinking that since this is 2 separate plants, that shouldn’t be an issue if you use the same part number?Can someone just tell me if I’m looking at this the wrong way?

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10 months ago
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skbruewerParticipating Frequently
asked in Americas - Texas & Louisiana

RegalPay Sunset

We’ve been using RegalPay for our ACH and Check payment processing (get the data out of Epicor, into RegalPay, approve transactions, process directly to Wells Fargo) for about 3 years now.We just received an email that MineralTree is sunsetting RegalPay in September.  At this point, we are trying to determine if we should set up the EI and upload those files ourselves, or try to find a new software. If we attempt to do this ourselves, it’s going to be quite a bit of work on our end to grab all of the Supplier bank data and set up new payment types and whatnot, as well as more work for our finance department, since they just press a button now.Does anyone else use a specific product to send ACH and Check data (we literally don’t print checks in house, Wells does it all for us) to their bank?

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1 year ago
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skbruewerParticipating Frequently
posted in Americas - Texas & Louisiana

Ending Labor Transactions

As you all may know, you can write an updateable BAQ to end Active Trans in the labordtl table.While I think this is great for some, I know that my company has a horrible habit of logging into MES as the user and clocking them out. Now, your company may not care, heck, you may not care, but to those of us who get audited on the regular, that’s falsifying records. There is a process in the Conversion Workbench called CVJC0050 - End Activity On Active Labor Transactions Process. I felt like our HR department could run this conversion program themselves, but we can’t give them access to the entire Conversion Workbench. So, let me show you what I did.In the Conversion Workbench, under User Run Conversions, find this process. It should be #6930. The scroll to the right to find the User Prompt ProgramNow create a new menu item, in a place where the appropriate personnel can get to it, and put that User Prompt Program info into the Program field.Now your users will be able to clock out an emp

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1 year ago
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skbruewerParticipating Frequently
asked in Americas - Texas & Louisiana

MES Server Side Error

I’m at the end of my rope here people…I have 6-8 MES only machines that keep throwing the “Session has either timed out or been deleted” error all day long. Initially, I thought it could be the session timing out, so I extended the timeout. That hasn’t changed anything.We even replaced the machines (they were old anyway), in case the image was bad.We set up a script to close MES, restart the machines, autologin, and reopen MES (we use SSO) on startup that happens at midnight.We set a constant ping to see if we were dropping pings, and we really didn’t see anything there either.I just don’t know what else to check. The only thing I can’t 100% check is user error, but what they are describing sounds like the error might be outside of Epicor.Any thoughts or insights would be greatly appreciated.

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1 year ago
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skbruewerParticipating Frequently
asked in Americas - Texas & Louisiana

SOX Compliance for Administrators

While this is not the first time I’ve worked for a publicly traded company, this is the first time I’ve ever had an auditor lose their mind quite this bad.We are getting a high finding due to the fact that I am the Admin for Epicor, and also a “functional user”. I’m really not sure how to explain this to them, other than to say that I have to be marked as a system manager, in order to use the data fix workbench, etc.I keep trying to explain that I’m really not a “functional user”, but they don’t seem to be getting it. I create users (which is covered by a ticket, and a change log), I run fixes, and I research issues. I don’t create PO’s, parts, or invoices.Has anyone else run into this issue with Auditors? If so, how do you handle this? 

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1 year ago
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skbruewerParticipating Frequently
asked in Kinetic & Epicor ERP

Post but not create invoices

I know how to use Service Security Maintenance to keep users from being able to post invoice groups in Epicor, but what I need is the flip side of that.How do I stop a user from being able to create a group, but allow them to be the approver? I know that we could use Logged Invoice Entry for AP, but this is specifically for AR.

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2 years ago
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